COSMOPOLITAN BURGLAR.
THIRTY YEARS IN GOAL.
ANOTHER FIVE YEARS’ SENTENCE AUCKLAND, Monday. “Your record, prisoner, is one of the most remarkable that have ever come before me,” said Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court when Robert Slade appeared for sentence, having pleaded guilty to charges of breaking, entering and theft, being unlawfully on premises at night and having housebreaking implements in his possession. Counsel for Slade said prisoner was 07 years of age and that 30 years of his life had been spent in gaol. He had come from Australia and had found it so difficult to obtain lawful employment that he had re-' verted to crime. The judge said Slade started his criminal record in Melbourne in 1890. He was a muchtravelled criminal, a kind of cosmopolitan burglar. lie bad operated in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, St. Helena and Durban. He then came to New Zealand. Accused was sentenced to live years’ hard labour.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17805, 2 September 1929, Page 6
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